Sardar Patel's Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on Tibet

Tribute to Sardar Patel ------ Sardar Patel's Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on Tibet NEW DELHI7 November 1950My Dear Jawaharlal,Ever since my return from Ahmedabad and after the Cabinet meeting the same day which I had to attend at practically 15 minutes notice and for which I regret I was not able to read all the papers,I thought I should share with you what is passing through my mind.I have carefully gone through the correspondence between the External Affairs Ministry and our Ambassador in Peking and through him the Chinese Government.I have tried to peruse this correspondence favourably(sic) to our Ambassador and the Chinese Government as possible,but I regret to say that neither of them comes out well as a result of this study,The Chinese Government has tried to delude us by professins...

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Blasts Fail to Deter a Narendra Modi's Rally in Patna,India

Blasts Fail to Deter a Narendra Modi's Rally in Patna,India from-        Asia Pacific Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A group assisted a man wounded in blasts at a political rally in Patna, India, on Sunday. By ELLEN BARRY and HARI KUMAR Published: October 27, 2013 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ SAVE E-MAIL SHARE PRINT REPRINTS NEW DELHI — A series of low-intensity bombs exploded on Sunday in the northeastern city of Patna, apparently targeting a vast rally featuring the opposition leader Narendra Modi, whose Bharatiya Janata Party hopes to unseat the long-dominant Congress Party in national...

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Madhesi parties woo Dalits with myriad offers

Madhesi parties woo Dalits with myriad offers KATHMANDU, Oct 26: In an effort to woo Dalit voters, the Madhesi parties have proposed various populist programs for them in their election manifestos. Upendra Yadav-led Madhesi People´s Right Forum-Nepal (MPRF-N) has floated an agenda of reservations for Dalits in all areas of the government and non-government sectors. “Our party would take a lead to ensure the representation of Dalits in all state mechanisms on the basis of their population. Students from the Dalit community should get free education up to university level,” said MPRF-N in its election manifesto. The manifesto further says that issues concerning the Dalit community should be incorporated in the educational curriculum. The party further envisages the formation...

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MNDF storms Majlis arrests MP Ali Azim

MNDF storms Majlis arrests MP Ali Azim The Maldives National Defense Forces (MNDF) has stormed the People’s Majlis and arrested Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) MP Ali Azim today after the Supreme Court stripped Azim and Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) MP Mohamed Nashiz of their parliamentary seats over decreed debt on Thursday (October 24). The Parliamentary Privileges Committee, in a statement on Friday, said they do not accept the Supreme Court’s “politically motivated” verdict as it was issued in contravention of the Supreme Court’s procedures. Lines of grey clad security officers with their arms intertwined blocked the...

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Defence Ministry alerted to possible threat to former President Nasheed’s life

Defence Ministry alerted to possible threat to former President Nasheed’s life The Ministry of Defence and National Security has been alerted by the Office of President Mohamed Nasheed to possible dangers to the life of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) presidential candidate. “According to sources, two Al-Qaeda agents have been employed for an attack on President Nasheed and are currently in Male’. The Office has requested the Ministry of Defense and National Security’s Intelligence to launch an investigation into the matter and to share findings with this office,” read a press statement from the former president’s office. Following...

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Zia Has Picked A “Path of Confrontation, Not of Dialogue”

 Zia Has Picked A “Path of Confrontation, Not of Dialogue” 6 killed in Bangladesh as opposition, police clash At least six people were killed and more than 100 injured in Bangladesh on Friday when security officials clashed with opposition supporters trying to defy a ban on protests, just two days before a planned national general strike. Security officials in the southern coastal district of Cox’s Bazar opened fire, killing two people, when opposition supporters attacked police and paramilitary border guards with sticks and firearms, ignoring a ban on rallies in the area, local police official Ranjit Kumar Barua said by phone....

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Pakistan second-worst country in gender equality: WEF

Pakistan second-worst country in gender equality: WEF Pakistan second-worst country in gender equality: WEF Pakistan ranks as the world’s second-worst country in terms of gender equality and equitable division of resources and opportunities among men and women, says a report published Friday. The Global Gender Gap Report 2013, published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with faculty at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, assesses 136 countries, representing more than 93 per cent of the world’s population, on how well resources and opportunities are divided among male and female populations.According...

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Activists Slam China's Human Rights Record Amid UN ReviewActivists Slam China's Human Rights Record Amid UN Review

Activists Slam China's Human Rights Record Amid UN Review Tibetan activists unfold a giant banner on the face of a UN building in Geneva, Oct. 22, 2013. AFP Rights activists have hit out at China as it undergoes scrutiny by the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying an all-out public relations bid by Beijing does little to hide routine violations of the rights of its citizens.In a statement released shortly after the Chinese delegation to the Council's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Beijing's rights record, the New York-based group Human Rights in China (HRIC) warned that the ruling Chinese Communist Party has...

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Forced Abortion Victim in China Rails at Judges in 'Fraud' Trial

Forced Abortion Victim in China Rails at Judges in 'Fraud' Trial A Chinese mother stands by her newborn baby girl at a maternity hospital in Beijing, Jan. 26, 2012.  AFP A Chinese woman charged in court with fraud after writing online about her forced abortion at the hands of the authorities said Thursday that she had been framed, slamming the judges for not listening to her side of the story, her lawyer and relatives said. Li Fengfei, who appeared in a highly unstable mood, told the court in the southwestern province of Guizhou's Bijie city, that she was not concerned about her fate "because she didn't want to live since...

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